Re: looping through a list, starting at 1

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:35:01 -0700
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On 8/1/2011 8:34 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:

On 8/1/2011 7:43 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> writes:

... and "natural" is a little unnatural, it seems to me. If
the various E are truly independent -- if l is merely a Collection
for the purposes of the loop -- one wonders where the interloper at
position 0 came from.


This is code for my new mark-up language. A section might
look like:

< [This is an example heading]

[This is the first paragraph of the body.]

[This is the last paragraph of the body.]>

. The first entry of a section always is interpreted as its
heading, so a heading does not require additional mark-up.

The code to convert this section to HTML converts the first
entry ?[This is an example heading]? into an HTML heading
element. Then it loops through the rest of the entries to
convert them to HTML paragraph elements.


Given that context, I prefer the sublist option, but suggest giving it
an identifier. It may not even be necessary to have a comment explaining
the skipped header:

List<String> body = l.sublist( 1, l.size() );


I should have used "E" instead of "String" here.

for( final E e : body ) ...

Patricia

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